A 12-year-old boy and a man are dead after a hang gliding accident
Friday afternoon off Sloan Road in the southern part of Clark County.
The family hired the man to take the boy on the flight, the Clark County Fire
Department told 8 News NOW. Nevada Highway Patrol Troopers said the crash
happened just before 3 p.m. near the Jean Dry Lake Bed.
A truck was towing the glider, police said and the glider was supposed to
release the tether, but it didn't and that's when the 12-year-old and the hang
gliding employee he was with plummeted to the ground.
The two were flying high around Interstate 15 while tethered to a
truck that was towing them, police said. The truck was supposed to release the
two into the air, but it did not, and when the truck made a turn, they came
crashing to the ground around 3 p.m. Both were pronounced dead on the scene.
